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Even arsenic leaders from some the ruling and Opposition parties toured the delta districts connected Wednesday to reappraisal the impacts of North eastbound monsoon and harvest loss, farmers crossed the Cauvery portion expressed heavy distress implicit delayed paddy procurement, retention constraints, and the demolition of harvested Kuruvai by the rains.
Opposition person Edappadi K. Palaniswami visited aggregate delta districts to conscionable affected farmers and inspect damaged paddy heaps lying extracurricular Direct Procurement Centres (DPCs), portion Food and Civil Supplies Minister R. Sakkarapani reviewed the concern with territory officials, assuring expedited action.
However, farmers’ organisations said authoritative interventions person travel excessively late. P.R. Pandian, president of the Coordination Committee of All Farmers Associations of Tamil Nadu, said the government’s delayed readying and mediocre coordination successful procurement had caused “a historical bottleneck.”
“This year, implicit 6.31 lakh acres of Kuruvai were cultivated, producing astir 13 lakh metric tonnes of paddy. But lone astir 6 lakh tonnes person been procured truthful far, leaving astir 4 lakh tonnes exposed to rain,” helium said. “At slightest 2 lakh tonnes are yet to beryllium harvested. Paddy sacks person been piling up successful beforehand of DPCs for days, and present rains person spoiled them.”
In Nagapattinam, wherever implicit 1.1 lakh acres of Kuruvai were cultivated — the highest successful caller years owed to surplus Mettur h2o — the concern is arsenic grim. Cauvery S. Dhanapalan, wide caput of the Cauvery Farmers Protection Association, said: “The Kuruvai harvest was fantabulous this year, but incessant rainfall has deed the flowering and enactment stages of samba paddy. Over 60% of Kuruvai has been harvested, but overmuch of it present lies soaked extracurricular procurement centres.”
Mr. Dhanapalan said astir DPCs are operating acold beyond capableness — each designed to store astir 3,000 sacks, but present holding implicit 10,000. With mediocre logistics and constricted obstruction movement, adjacent procured stocks stay unmoved to mills.
“There’s disorder successful milling orders, shortage of loaders, and deficiency of coordination. Barely one-tenth of the paddy brought to DPCs is really procured,” added Mr. Dhanapalan.
